What is the Real Cost of Bananas?
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Supporting Question 1: Where do bananas come from?
Supporting Question 2: What do corporations in the banana industry contribute to society?

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Supporting Question 3: What are fair-trade bananas?

Supporting Question 4: What are the working conditions like for children in the banana industry?

Summative Performance Task: What is the real cost of bananas?

The Real Cost of Bananas Project


Step 1: You will work in groups of 3-4 students.
Step 2: Go to Google Classroom and Download the Google Slides presentation.
Step 3: Each student in the group will be responsible for designing a slide based on their supporting question (Groups of 5 students will share some of the slides).
Step 4: Create a title slide with all student names.
Step 5: What is the real cost of bananas? Take a position and construct an argument based on what you've learned throughout the inquiry.

Slide 1: Title Slide
Slide 2: Supporting Question 1: Where do bananas come from?
Slide 3: Supporting Question 2: What do corporations in the banana industry contribute to society?
Slide 4: Supporting Question 3: What are fair-trade bananas?
Slide 5: Supporting Question 4: What are the working conditions like for children in the banana industry?
Slide 6: What is the real cost of bananas?

Take a position and construct an argument that discusses the real cost of bananas.